Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard Cadle claims that in 1914 he was saved from a gambler's and drunkard's grave by his mother's prayers. Successful thereafter as an automobile salesman (they called him "Car-a-Day" Cadle), owner of a chain of shoe-repairing shops and fruit juice stands in Indianapolis, he got more pious all the time. In 1921 he built Cadle Tabernacle, a large Spanish-style building, in which he took to preaching...
Central figure in any investigation of Southern literary life is William Faulkner. This short, reticent Southerner, sharp-eyed as a gambler, lives about as close to the heart of the South as it is possible to get-in Oxford, Miss., a county seat of 2,890 people, 62 miles southeast of Memphis. Historically speaking, nothing much has happened to Oxford since the Yankees burned it 75 years ago. It has a courthouse square, which Mississippi-born Artist John McCrady painted in Town Square (see cut). It has its Confederate monument on which a soldier stands stonily at ease...
...singing westerns, as in other musical pictures, songs must be "excused," which accounts for the fact that most of the action which does not occur on horseback occurs in well-appointed cafés. Also, as in Rhythm of the Saddle, which has an unbelievably elaborate racketeer and gambler plot, heroes are more likely to be rodeo performers than practicing cowboys. Western devotees, growing effete, do not find these anomalies objectionable...
Although the Harvard agent denied that Boston's most powerful lottery baron had anything to do with the pool, it was learned conclusively that the gambler, a witness in the "Beauo" Breen murder case, had agreed to back the enterprise...
...time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife. What Poet Service did not mention, said Mr. Mahoney last week, was that the "lady called Lou" was also shot. She recovered, he said, and was two years ago reported living quietly in Prince Rupert...